14 DAY TRIAL // The Document Foundation published recently details about the immediate availability for download and testing of the third Beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 5.0 open-source office suite for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
According to the changelog, which we have attached at the end of the article for reference, LibreOffice 5.0 Beta 3 is here to fix over 100 bugs that have been reported by users or discovered by various developers during the famous bug hunting sessions held by The Document Foundation.
It will be impossible for us, and also useless to explain here in detail all the bugs that have been fixed in this third and most probably the last Beta release of the forthcoming LibreOffice 5.0, due for release sometime this Summer.
However, we can tell you that the final release of LibreOffice 5.0 will bring a significant amount of new features, among which we can mention Microsoft Word-compatible text highlighting, support for cropping images, table management, and toolbar improvements for Word.
Moreover, LibreOffice 5.0 will improve the calculation of displayed page numbers, will add conditional formatting, table structured references, scientific format, number format, image crop, save, and changes for Calc. DOC, OOXML and RTF improvements will also be present.
LibreOffice 5.0 RC1 will be released in July
Those of you who want to test this new Beta release of the LibreOffice 5.0 cross-platform office suite can download it for Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems right now via Softpedia. Linux builds are available for various DEB- and RPM-based distributions, for both 32- and 64-bit hardware architectures.
Also, please note that this is a pre-release software, and it contains unresolved issues that will most probably be fixed in the next development milestone, LibreOffice 5.0 RC1 (Release Candidate 1), which will be released in early July 2015.